Re: What happened to the sb writeback list (aka sync efficiency) fix?

["Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>]

On 06/22/16 13:42, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 04:12:17PM +0200, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
>> On 06/21/16 16:03, Brian Foster wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 02:54:46PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>> On Mon 20-06-16 12:43:34, Brian Foster wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:46:38PM +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once upon a time there was this fine patch set called
>>>>>> "improve sync efficiency with sb inode wb list" [1]
>>>>>> by Brian Foster, who fixed up the original version by Josef Bacik.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been running with this since then and it seems to work flawlessly,
>>>>>> yet it doesn't seem that this ever got merged..does anybody know why?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Waiman Long has been working on something similar with his per-CPU
>>>>>> lists, but those patches naturally collide a bit, so I'm wondering
>>>>>> what's what.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fwiw the effect of the wb list on systems with many cached inodes is
>>>>>> phenomal; it would be a shame if this went unmerged.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, the latest version posted was v7:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/104078
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the testing feedback. Unfortunately, I've not really heard
>>>>> any feedback on getting this merged. I'm not sure the previous
>>>>> version(s) by Josef and Dave got much traction either. :(
>>>>
>>>> Actually it would be a pitty to have this dropped. Please rebase & resend
>>>> the patches and send them to AKPM asking him to merge them because Al isn't
>>>> replying... That should make things moving.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sure, it rebases clean so I can post a v8 after I get a chance to run
>>> some regression tests.
>>>
>>> Holger,
>>>
>>> Care to offer a Tested-by?
>>
>> My pleasure:
>>
>> Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstaette@applied-asynchrony.com>
> 
> Should this be "holger.hoffstatte@..." (note the dropped 'e')? I got a
> return to sender for the above on my recent post. Probably not worth
> resending, but you could reply to the post on-list with an accurate
> email and I'll fix it up locally as well...

I'm confused, that's all. It should be:

Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>

Trying to ditch gmail and too many different addresses.
Sorry for the confusion..I made the same mistake somewhere else. :(

Holger